Technology, Data Science, Privacy and Security

The time-critical and resource-intensive nature of detecting and taking-down cyber-threats leaves companies with little time to review and advance their awareness and education strategies. This research network aims to empower organisations to make data-driven decisions and cultivate a cyber-safe culture.

Enabling traditional businesses to craft digital strategies that allow them to thrive in a digital ecosystem threatened by the disruption of new technologies.

Using a unique methodology to tease out ethical, legal and social values – which often remain implicit and unarticulated – to build robot/AI, cyber and human enhancement systems that are more effective, efficient and better accepted by users, clients and the public.

Exploring the challenges of visual narratives and developing novel ways to navigate complexity using creative methodologies from the video game, 3D computer animation and Virtual Reality (VR) creative content industries.

Developing distributed ledger (blockchain) tools to facilitate efficiency and trust in international nuclear materials accountancy stakeholder networks

Research into the underlying ideas behind the Bitcoin cryptocurrency – known by the terms Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technology – which are applicable to a range of other applications, including financial services infrastructure, legal automation, provenance, supply chain management, international trade and health informatics.

Working with world leading organisations to test and implement use cases for blockchain—a promising technology that can potentially enhance business processes and interoperability.

Identifying trends in both commercial industries and the grand challenges facing societies to create data-driven impact on organisations.

Undertaking immersive and interactive projects, through the use of next generation cyber/physical technologies, to re-imagine ways of creating, designing, learning and working.

Development of intelligent methods—such as adversarial machine learning and cyber threat intelligence—for automatically detecting, responding to, and preventing advanced persistent threats.

A pioneering high-performance visualisation facility that forges new ground in integrated artistic and scientific thinking to facilitate understanding of complex datasets and ultra-scale imagery.

A cross-disciplinary research environment dedicated to understanding how humans can interact with three-dimensional robotic agents and responsive structures within the context of creative and social robotics.